This is for Jodie: I found this picture looking up Star Wars TCG on Wizards of the Coast. It's Wayne Pygram a.k.a. Scorpius under heavy prosthetics to play Grand Moff Tarkin in Episode III.
OK, I have to add something. I was bored around IMDb and because I recently watched A Clockwork Orange, I was there mainly. Anyways, I found out that Mr. Alexander's freaky guard guy is David Prowse, the man who played Darth Vader...
Today was fun. I picked up another booster for Star Wars Miniatures and I also got the rest of the trading cards. If I'm in Sioux City again (with time on my hands) I would love to stop at Acme Comics and Collectibles. Fran rocks! It sorta feels weird to not wear my badges now. Oh well. I played Miniatures with Rich. He thought it was weird at first, but after he won he said he liked it. I played Lord of the Rings Risk again and Greg won tremendously again. I held my own for as long as possible. We then went to the dead dog party and were going to play Risk but there was a lot of people there. I went to the dorms to unload all of my stuff and prepare for registration and my Government test tomorrow! Yay!
My Fall 2005 schedule:
MWF 10:00 am - Tech and Society-Honors with Renzelman
MWF 11:00 am - Intro to Sociology with Snowden
TR 11:00 am - American Presidency with Leeper
TR 12:30 pm - Computer Hardware with Lutt
TR 2:00 pm - World Civilizations I with Tabor
I'd like to talk to Bertolas about the rotation schedule and workload for Computer Mapping because I can take Soc anytime. I'd like to take 15 credits because 18 gets really annoying when everything is due at the same time.
Yesterday was so fun. I basically hung out at the registration desk all day. Josh dragged himself up to Wayne along with Matt and Jen and that was great. And Kaddy showed up too. Fran at Acme Comics talked me into getting the Star Wars Miniatures game. I love it. I had to buy a booster pack because the characters you are given are really weak by themselves. I played that with Sam (trying to figure it out) and then with Greg (finally got it figured out). We then played a huge game of Star Wars Trivial Pursuit (probably one of the last games I may play with that board if I get the new version quickly) and I won but it was close. We then played Lord of the Rings Risk and Greg on the side of evil won when the found the ring at Mordor two spaces away from Mount Doom. I also got wiped out at Minas Tirith but it was fun. I then watched Zombies until the Masquerade show. Paper faces on parade... And then the door prizes. I watched Munchkin, then Enterprise, and back to Munchkin. And then we had to see the forbidden Fargo tape until I got tired and returned to the dorm.
I do have to say something. WillyCon this year was in combination with the Young Author's Conference which wasn't too bad, except no one from there was working the registration desk. So many times the desk was bombarded with questions about the Conference that we have no idea on because they told us nothing and hey have little information there. Oh well, I'll get over it.
OK, I am excited for WillyCon this year! I would like to encourage all WSC students to pay it a visit anytime this weekend. It's all over the Student Center so if you're bored or something just check it out. It's free to all WSC students. If nothing else, take a look at the art show in the Niobrara room and if you feel adventurous, place a bid. There's some awesome art this year.
I'm not entirely sure, but to win or buy anything at the art show or from a dealer, you might need a badge. Well, that's free also, just go down to the Atrium and they'll hook you up. I'll be there at 10am and 4pm if you want to visit! 
Sony and Microsoft schedule PS3 and Xbox 360 unveiling's for the same afternoon, May 16th. Which will get more publicity???
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1Up told me about the Halo 2 Multiplayer Expansion Pack. the first two out later in the month are called Contanment and Warlock which is basically Wizard which will be free. Later ones include: Turf, and Sanctuary and will be for purchase at the same time.
Eager to create a Dynamic Display Picture but short on dough? Then we got an MSN Messenger 7 freebie for you! Just follow these instructions:
1) Sign into MSN Messenger 7 (duh!).
2) Go to Actions > Get More From Messenger.
3) Click Dynamic Display Pictures and select BlueMountain Display Pictures.
4) Click Muggins.
5) Pick your favorite Muggin and start customizing.
6) When you've finished, click Already Have a Pin?
7) Enter this code: bluemountainmuggin.
8) Your free Muggin will automatically download to MSN Messenger 7 (depending on the user activity on that site this can take quite a few seconds).
For FREE Winks:
1) Sign into MSN Messenger 7.
2) Go to Actions > Get More From Messenger.
3) Click Winks (click Ok if a dialog window shows up).
4) Click a Wink of your choice.
5) Click Already Have a Pin?.
7) Enter this code: bluemountainwink.
8) Your free Wink will automatically be added to My Winks in MSN Messenger 7.
For FREE Characters with Moods:
1) Sign into MSN Messenger 7.
2) Go to Actions > Get More From Messenger.
3) Click Dynamic Display Pictures and select BlueMountain Display Pictures.
4) Click Characters with Moods (or whatever it's called in your language).
5) Click your favorite Character.
6) Click Already Have a Pin?.
7) Enter this code: bluemountainmood.
8) Your free Character with Moods will automatically download to MSN Messenger 7.
The clock is ticking and the offer is temporary, so spread the word and tell your friends where you got the codes from ;)
Well, the new MSN 7 is out with all the features of my old beta. Hope you all like it! I have been suprised how many people still don't have/use MSN 6. All these no display pictures worry me. Are you using Windows Messenger? Don't you know that's crappier than AIM? Seriously, embrace change, people.
Also, as a word of assumed Microsoft Advice: I think they want you to use a name as your display name and put your stupid quote in the personal message bar because people like to know who you are and the personal message is easy to change so you can keep your name constant. Plus, having 2 quotes would seem redundant, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it?!
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My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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I talked to my advisor today about my schedule. I told him I didn't really expect to be out of here in 4 years with what I'm taking. He told me I'll probably be here another 3 years. I thought to myself "a six-year student!" When I got back to my room, it dawned on me that I'm a sophomore with 2 years in college done. 2+3=5 years, not six. I feel better now. Good thing I'm in college not taking Calculus.
The movie's not even out yet and Lucas is changing it. Don't worry, he didn't make Greedo shoot first again, just a few changes to what sound like the end. It's not unheard of especially when he first had Darth Maul fall in one piece and then had Anakin hold on to Padmé on their wedding with his intact hand. Check out the last minute small changes here.
I went to Sioux City today. I went to Hot Topic and they were playing "Smile Like You Mean It" and I was happy. I also went to Spencer's and Sam Goody then left. I then went to Toys 'R' Us. They had Star Wars music playing by all the new toys. They were all out of the BLue Guard action figures. Apparently, the Red Guard will be out later. I did see the Star Wars Risk and I'm a little disappointed. It's not so much a map then a series of conjoined planets. Oh well, I still want it. Like the Lord of the Rings version with the One Ring moving toward Mount Doom, it has the Emperor moving toward Order 66. Well, I got a vintage Stormtrooper I've been wanting.
Anyways, I then went to Target after trying to figure out how to get there for a while. I was looking at the action figures and a Target Security Guard came over and asked which ones I was getting. I told him I was getting the Blue Guard and a Battle Droid. He said he got the Anakin and Vader and that was cool. I went to check out and the cashier shouted out "Star Wars!" How nice. That Target is the nicest ever!
Alrighty, 4 bands:
Number One Fan = Very good, but little catchy songs
Action Action = Good also, louder than first
Goldfinger = Awesome! Blows your world
All-American Rejects = Very good, but Goldfinger wore us out
Number of people kicked out (that I saw) = 6, Good work, Brandon
What's a concert without a delay? This one was supposed to let us in at 6:00, but we got in around 6:30-6:45. It's a shame we got frisked because I have no pictures. No lighters, no cameras, no spy.
The first two bands weren't all that memorable thanks to Goldfinger. Yeah, they kinda made an impression. I doubt they'll come back if the school had their way. Popular demand would be there, but no school. Basically when you tell kids to quit school, smoke pot, and form a band, you might not be pleasing the authorities. And if that wasn't it, the profanity and flashing will. Oh well, it was all awesome! Goldfinger brough a crap-load of people on stage and jumped into the audience and whatnot. I feel bad for All-American Rejects. They rocked, but people were tired. All in all it was great. I got free swag such as a poster and some stickers and I got the Rejects's CD. I was disappointed that Goldfinger had nothing because they would've made so much money. Also, I heard All-American Rejects got stoned before Goldfinger took the stage.
Wow, it's been a day. I should've put this up yesterday but I had a wild day of Halo and Battlefront. Anyways, on Friday I took a midnight run to Walmart to get the first of the new Star Wars merchandise. I picked up 4 action figures: Count Dooku, Darth Vader, Clonetrooper, and a Super Battle Droid. I found out later that a more articulated clonetrooper will be out later in the year so live and learn. Vader also isn't very poseable and some weird, sick action. He also has trouble standing up, but he's not too bad. Count Dooku is awesome. He's one of the most poseable ones I've seen. He does come with some spoilers designed in him so that's interesting. His hands come off and his head comes off. Not too much we weren't expecting. I still want to get Mace Windu, a Battle Droid, and the Red and Blue Guard.
I might be making a mad dash into Sioux City on Monday to visit Spencer's, Hot Topic, Sam Goody, Toys 'R' Us, and Target to look for more stuff. I would go today, but I'm going to the concert!
Also, I got dismal results from my previous post, so I won't be experimenting with that, but if anyone on campus has the Pepsi/Mountain Dew/etc. iTunes free song caps and they're not going to use them, let me know.
Hey, I have a question. Now I know it's April Fools Day but honestly being serious. Has anyone heard of freeipods.com? It's real, it's legal. Anyways what you do is you sign up for one offer such as Blockbuster Online, Columbia House DVD club, among others and then they give you a link to give to a number of friends or put on your site or whatever. To get an iPod, iPod mini, or PSP, you need 5 friends and to get an iPod shuffle you need only 3.
They used to have a blockbuster free trial that you would do, then cancel immediately and it would count but now it seems like you would probably be charged for the first month which is $9.95. Now, it's a great deal getting a $200 item for $10, but I am worried that I may not have enough people visiting who would help me and I would lose that money. However, I have become aware that my site is getting a little global. It's not big by any means but I am getting hits. So this is for the casual or steady visitor to my site:
OK, going into this test was awesome. It's an essay test for Sped in class, that she already gave us the questions. There are 20 and we pick 15. So I already studied the crap out of them and then she comes in today and says that she's been getting calls for a fraternity all day and she needs to be in her office. Now, a common teacher would cancel the test, but that's no fun. So she has us put all of our stuff in her office and she gives us a group test. The same questions except we get to talk to each other. I love it!
Now, I know a lot of the questions already so I get done fast. This happens to much to me because I have a talent that I can write compact and quality-filled short sentences. My bane of Comp: 4 page paper due and I can only write 3 because I've ran out of stuff to write about. Anyways, I'm sitting in the class for the longest time until I just leave.
So now all of my stress is gone. I was elected ACM Secretary again for next year and I interviewed Wayne's sped teacher for Sped and I only have to talk to my FieldEx teacher now. By the way, I also have only like 5 hours left of FieldEx so that's winding down too. Whew!
I was a little bored today, so I was clicking around on Wikipedia, the encyclopedia on everything and stumbled upon Norfolk's listing. Apparently the town was named after the north fork simplified of the Elkhorn River, but the USPS thought it was a mistake so they changed the name to Norfolk and that's why people don't pronounce it as it is spelled. I feel so learned.
I also found out that Wahoo, Nebraska, had the Nebraska legislature proclaim David Letterman an admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska. When Letterman jokingly said he wanted more, Wahoo sent him a '76 Ford Pinto with a sofa attached to the hood, a wall clock made of cow droppings, and two of the town's teenagers, brothers Jeff and Josh Price.
By the way, there is no Wayne State College entry yet so if anyone wants to make one for Wikipedia, go here.
When we first met, I love how you were so awesome. You were so open and sharing, until you started moving my stuff around. I do like how you give me stuff with my pop, though. But it would be nice if you got along with my friends better. And I do like your companion, but it just doesn't really get along with my best friend. I wish you could just see what's new with me and adapt yourself to that, but you're a little rigid. I don't mind how you tell all my friends what you're doing, because I expect that from my best friend. Anyways, I'm not ready to breakup yet, I like what you're offering me. I just wish like any other guy that I can have both.
Millennium Falcon has posted some gruesome pictures from a German Episode III book that basically solidifies that Revenge of the Sith will be PG-13 instead of PG. Quite nasty.
(WARNING: Major plot spoliers inside) Millennium Falcon forums
(psst...a little trick whenever bandwidths get exceeded, go File, Save As to save the webpage and view it locally. You will have downloaded all the pictures.)
From PC Gamer:
It will have space battles (Including Ep3’s space battle) where you can board, sabotage, and take control of certain parts of the cruiser class ships. Jedi will also be implemented although not a class in every map. The game will also be more objective driven compared to capturing outposts like the first battlefront.
We had a fire drill in Connell today. I'm not sure why they need an alarm every 6 feet but they are so loud. It's like the sound of my brain mixing together! In retrospect, I wish I had recorded it, but I forgot. And the worst thing is I still had to go to class.
Thanks, Rhea! The pic is too big for the main page so see my map here. I would do the countries map, but there would only be the USA.
visited 15/51 states (29%)
(I wrote this a while ago, but due to yesterday's announcement of Thomas Haden Church playing Spider-Man 3's unknown villian, I decided now is as good as any to post it.)
When I get bored, I take a look at the IMDb entry for Spider-Man 3. The forums usually go into these topics such as "Venom's in, 100%" or "My great idea" all having to do with Venom. Personally, I love the character, he's cool, but I just don't see it happening.
The movies convey this sense of realism, and usually all it takes to accept the villian's ability is the acceptance of one thing about them that does not exist. Green Goblin had the Goblin formula because I think the glider is pretty plausible. You have to believe that this stuff can make you strong, but mess up your mind which is not too hard to grasp. Doctor Octopus had really the fusion machine to accept. It's not too hard to grasp, humanity has seen the sun for eons, can we duplicate it? The arms might be a stretch but in layman's terms it makes sense to control the reaction. For Venom to work, you have to accept that aliens exist. Wow!
It doesn't help that the fans' scripts always include Carnage in Spider-Man 4. One at a time. Tobey and Kirsten don't really want to continue after 3, so why even think about it. It may be fun to kill off MJ, but how 'bout using her while she's here. Plus, if the series goes too long, it may drag on, regardless of a cool villain.
They probably will do Green Goblin again and Venom is basically an enhanced Spider-Man, so we'd be looking at no new powers of any kind. And even if they did do Venom, the hype created by the fans would be so big that the movie would never satisfy them, i.e. Star Wars Episode I.
Basically it boils down to simplicity. Harry as the Green Goblin makes sense with the existing story and Lizard wouldn't hurt anything. I also heard the comment that they want a celebrity to play villians. I'm sorry, but how long has Alfred Molina been a major celebrity? No offense, he's a great actor, but he's no major celebrity.
I am so tired. Last night I made a midnight run into Norfolk to pick up the Clone Wars DVD and that was fun. By the way, Walmart has a 128MB Rio MP3 player on clearance for 50 daura hidden in the back. Shh! The Mauve Hand...Shh! Anyways, I also got The Killers CD and I needed some lighter fuel. I can't watch Clone Wars when I get back because that would put me to sleep around 3 so I wait. I have a full day's events starting with class, class, lunch, field experience, class, speaker, and finally, dinner. I had to wait 18 hours to see it but I finally got to see my DVD! I love it.
One thing is happy, my projects are coming to a close! I had my teaching episode yesterday and my last SPED thing is on next Tuesday. I do have to do some interviews, but I'm not worried. I just can't wait until it's all over! Oh yeah, I also found the mp3 for the Star Trek fight song!
Oh well, for no apparent reason: Leprechaun piss! 
I went to the Sci-fi Farscape marathon today and Jodie said that someone at Pepsi said that they may be bringing back Crystal Pepsi. The catch is that they would like it to be in clear cans. The answer: Transparent Aluminum, the formula Scotty gave that engineer back in 1986. Teehee! It's all a weird coincidence and all of this conversation is pure hearsay but it's interesting.
I caved a while ago. I got a webcam and Trillian doesn't support it so I'm back to MSN beta. Anyways, I stumbled upon a non-public beta release which is kinda cool. First, it shows display pictures as an icon (you can make them bigger too, but too many are online) which I like, but also there's a private message bar which I like too. You can put in a message there and it will show up in your contact card. It also can replace that with "What I'm listening to" which shows what's on Windows Media Player (as evidenced below). You can also modify it to do that with Winamp somehow.
To show it all off, I made a screenshot. I decided to pixelate the names for privacy, but you may find your DSP. Also, some have grey by their name, that's the Messenger Plus! update that let's you rename contacts and keep the existing name in grey which I like. 
Now I got it from here (right-click, save as .exe) but some of the links that the site listed are down, so if you want it and it's not working, let me know. I think it's spiffy and as far as I know, it's perfectly legal otherwise Microsoft would be hunting mess.be down as I speak and they're not.
ComingSoon! posted some good funny dialogue from key scenes SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS! Enter at your own risk...
Coming Soon! - Latest News
This movie was showing in Ramsey tonight. It wasn't too bad despite the soaring historical inaccuracies. It was a nice story with nice twists and it would be cool if there was something like that. The big killer is that they made the treasure so huge. It takes a lot of gullability to assume that something so massive can continue to evade all records and historians. See, this is why Indiana Jones is good. He's looking for small things: the Ark of the Covenant, the Indian/Hindu stones, and the Holy Grail (tiny by most respects). It's understandable if these small objects get lost. But a treause that huge under NYC 5 stories despite subway excavation under two major streets being gone forever is just ignorance. Anyways it was enjoyable.
My Rating: 6 out of 10, can't ignore the facts.
DVD-worthy: not really, not a bad rental or tape off of pay-per-view.
Here's a fun fact: When you're listening to music on a playlist on anything, Windows Media Player, WinAmp, whatever; go to Q 98.5's website. Their site plays their callsign sound when you go there. Now if you're bored enough (like me), go to the site right when a song ends and another begins. It's freaky because it sounds like you're on the radio.
Also, I think I know what my next CD purchase will be. Yeah, I actually buy CD's. I think I'll get The Killers because there's nothing like songs that get stuck in your head and refuse to leave. Well, anyways they'll be in Omaha on May 5 at Sokol Auditorium and if I have money, I'd love to go!
Also, the letter people on Fridge 1 keep making shapes and stealing letters and it's not that fun so Fridge 2 or any of the others are better.
The title says it all. John Williams is doing it again. That's about it.
Coming Soon! - Latest News
I'm always at a loss for words when it comes to trailers becuase I'm never sure what to make of them. I am surprised of the amount of spoilers in the trailer. I'm not talking about Vader or the Emperor, that's a given. But if you notice, they show the death of key prequel characters. Oh well, it's awesome. 60 Minutes said that Lucas wants the kids to stay home because ROTS will deserve the PG-13 rating it will get. Evil!
Check it out here.
OK, I'm going to vent for a while but I need to do it. I'm going to talk about one of my cousins on my mom's side. She's a year younger than me and has quite the journey. I'm going to try to be as objective as possible and I do realize that I have her siblings' sites listed but I don't mind talking about her.
Now for some background. My cousin started last year at UNK. She visited Wayne but thought it was boring (true that) and she liked Kearney. She drove home every weekend while she was there. Granted my brother drove home every weekend too, but he was in Beatrice which is much, much closer. At the end of the semester she decided to transfer to Southeast Community College in Lincoln and live in an apartment. By the way, her parents are paying every step of the way. Now she says that she doesn't like the teachers and wants to go to UNL. I also hear she wants to move in with two guys and possibly another girl. And the parents are fine with this. She still has no major.
OK, One thing I've learned from college is that everything in college is up to you, there is no one to blame. If you don't like the teachers, point one, who cares, they're going to be gone next semester. And point two, you gotta realize that they don't care about you. If you don't like them you got to make the class interesting and pay attention to get better grades because they won't help you. My second rant is to the parents. I have nothing against transferring to another college but what a weak reason. "I don't like the town." OK, you're not there for the town, you're there for the college. She should have known that Kearney was too far away for her when she visited. Also, I consider my parents buying an apartment to be a reward for doing something good at college. I'm sorry, but switching colleges is not a reward. If I wanted an apartment, my parents would have me pay for it. And I know she won't like UNL. The classes will be too hard or the teachers will hate her.
Here's my psychic vision for her future. She'll leave UNL and maybe the parents will have her stay at home in Fremont. She'll go to UNO, not like it and maybe go to Midland before she gives up on college. She'll move to Washington state to be with her favorite Uncle Joe and will have completed her transformation into one of our aunts or uncles that have moved to the coast and lost contact that she has despised for so long. She was always planning family reunions to get the coastals out here but they all failed and she will become just like them.
OK, I'm done, but I may add more when I think of it...
Aww, there's little time left. Startrek.com released a production report for the last episode of Enterprise. 
Well, the big news is that the new theatrical Episode III Poster is out! Looks great, check out a huge version here. I've always said that sometime I wanted to get all the theatrical posters of the Star Wars movies (probably the special edition posters for the classics becaus those don't bother me) and have a wall dedicated to those posters up in Wayne, but that's money. And where I'm at, both StarWars.com and StarTrek.com are down, so I'm kinda limited on my super-official news.
I also want to throw this in: According to TrekToday, SpikeTV is interested in Enterprise for a new season but Paramount isn't talking...
Perfect for ADD. Rhea showed me this site where you have a refrigerator magnet board that users just drag letters around. Crazy, but keeps you occupied. Check it out! 
I'm playing SimCity 4 and a while ago I zoned for a landfill because I forgot about sanitation. Then I realized that there's much more environmentally friendly ways of taking out the trash. I've dezoned most of it, but now I have a 2x2 square fo landfill that won't go away. Can't delete it, can't remove it, can't destroy it. I got bored and tried using the disasters to get rid of it. Nothing works! I frickin' grew a volcano on top of it and it's still there! Does anyone know how to trash the thing (pun intended)?
Things have been going so good the past few days, I have to share. I get a job, Halo LAN, bought me something, Friday's cancelled, what more can I ask? I'm so happy I decided to let Rhea borrow my PS2 for break. I figure if I take it home, I have to take my TV home and that's one more thing. Also, Best Buy called when I got home so I'll interview there. As much as I like the job that I've been given, I would LOVE to work at Best Buy.
Hey Rhea, what's that rabbit 30-second thingy link?
Yay for Halo LANs! This was very fun. I showed up around 11 because I had homework and I waited for an opening. I brought my camera, but I figured I would not do good so I wouldn't use it. Well, it started off that way with 7-9th places basically covered by me, but then it picked up. I remember how much I miss that game. After a few rounds I got to here: 
Somewhere around this time, Bruce asked me "What's going on with you?" or something to that effect. And then I got another good match. On the last match, both Biskuit and I got melee triple kills during football. We rock. 
Well, that's about it. I'm looking forward to the next one!
I'm both mad and happy. I found out in Government that there was a Modest Mouse concert in Omaha last night. I would've killed to go to that! But, I am happy that All-American Rejects are coming to Wayne for our spring concert. Goldfinger's also coming, but, unfortunately, I've never heard of them. I know, I'm a loser. Let me know what songs I should get cause I want to know how they sound.
I also found out that my History class is cancelled on Friday along with my Government class on that day, so I may be leaving tomorrow, hopefully.
I tried Battlefront online tonight. It's not bad, but something is wrong with the scripting. My first game was me vs. two humans with 6 AI players: Me=Republic on Cloud City. Yeah, that's going to go good. No people to hold command posts and they are destroyers. Then the game does Endor with me as the Rebels, so now they're both in AT-ST's. Yeah, it's not fun. The game needs to detect the amount of players and compensate on its random selection. Don't give the advantaged humans more of an advantage with the only side with vehicles. I can't believe that there isn't anyone online besides these two at 11:40pm, it's not that late. And I know they don't want to cause lag, but 12 people fighting at a time? I know they expect the maps to be full, but when they're not, you have a lot of ground to grab and no resources to do it. What's the next one? Hoth, where they're both in snowspeeders making the AT-AT's useless. And I know they're not cheating, they're doing what they're supposed to, there's just no defense. Although they did manage to get a snowspeeder into the base... Next level, Kashyyyk Docks as the Separatists. I should win this and despite being in a vehicle and against only one this time, the numbers weren't adding up. I'm killing them left and right and capturing command posts but yet they still have a good 50 more reinforcements. I got 42 kills that round and he got 28. Explain that! Next one, Naboo Plains and it feels like it's already in progress. I'm the Separatists and guess where he is...the Jedi Starfighter, where I can't get him, but he can get me. The teams are even, I get in a tank and head to the center, die and notice that we're now 25 under. It's at this point that I turn off the PS2. I need more practice, and people need to play this game online more often. I got respect for the guys, but when you're already owning the AI, does it hurt to get out of the vehicle and shoot at them? Like I said, they're doing nothing wrong, but I'd love to play a big match where I'd have at least another human on my team.
The full-length Episode III trailer is coming soon!
Thursday, March 10 at 9pm - FOX will be showing the trailer during "The O.C."
After the broadcast, you can watch it online if you paid for StarWars.com or AOL
Friday, March 11 - See the trailer in front of "Robots".
Monday, March 14 - Anyone can see the trailer online.
Star Wars: Episode III | Episode III Trailer: Online, On Screens and On TV
Ed was fun today. Monday's have 2 teaching episodes where students teach whatever they want. Today, a student taught us about nouns, verbs, and adjectives. After we're done we discuss it. Now, whenever someone teaches anything that's shop, art, sometimes music, and sometimes literature, Dr. Curtiss has to ask "Why do we need to learn this?" or "Who cares?" and even though he says he's trying to encourage discussion, it's rather obvious that he has little appreciation for these subjects.
Anyway, somehow we got to the topic of teaching English in every class and the row of shop kids in the back thought that they shouldn't have to assign papers in shop. Makes sense, people learn by doing. He did not like this idea. We spent a long time discussing whether shop teachers should assign writing exercises. Dr. Curtiss even said that he would not wnat those kids to be teachers if they did not assign writing in shop. After a while, people stopped caring and the discussion moved on. It was funny to hear this debate, though and it made my day.
Well I went to Gretna today. The Toy Liquidators didn't have much but there was a Goldmember action figure that tempted me, maybe next week. I went over to Toys R Us and found the DVD Trivial Pursuit for Lord of the Rings. OK LOTR fans, now go get it! They had a super-posable Boba Fett (which the "vintage" style figures are leaving the racks very quicky being replaced by sneak previews). I'm still looking for Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper. I think the Episode III Vader may be a repack though. If you see any, let me know. I went over to Barnes and Noble. Their website had America (the book) listed for $15, but I saw no notice that this was reduced from $25 anywhere, so I hestiated.
Other than that, I'm done. I can't wait to get back to my stress-filled week next week. Let's see: Government test questions I want to know by Monday, FCS article review on Thursday, 3 readings due for Psych on Thursday, Email thingy for SPED due Tuesday, Sped article review on Thursday. Plus tests on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Yippey!
Also, I have one free song to iTunes. What should I download?
Coming Soon! posted some more pics from Episode III. Check it out:
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OK, the weirdest thing just happened. I'm going to try to censor myself because I don't want to potentially embarrass anyone. I got an IM from a guy in my high school graduating class tonight asking if I liked his display picture (supposedly of his penis) and said if I wanted to go out. I told him that I'm not interested and he said to email him if I change my mind. OK, I'm trying to censor myself because I have the suspicion that this was either someone else on his name or he was inebriated, which is an unnecessarily fancy word for drunk or was high, cracked up, doped up, etc. I did check with Claire to see if I have the right email and I do so now I'm confused. This kid is not by any means gay and my user name is not that ambiguous. So I'll just leave it at that.
I'm so excited! I start my field experience tomorrow for professional education! I'm going to Wayne High and sit in on the social studies class from 1-3pm. My schedule is going to be so busy on Tuesdays and Thursdays now. I have Psych at 9:30-10:45, FCS at 11-12:15, lunch, FieldEx from 1-3, Sped from 3:30-4:45, (then I have Sci-Fi from 5-5:30 on Tuesdays)! Oh well, it will be worth it. I'll also be there from 1:00 to the end of the day on Fridays. So I'm looking at around 6 hours per week and I need 25 hours to pass ProfEd.
My teacher is so cool, too. He basically said I can do whatever I want when I'm there. I could go to the middle school, go to another class, possibly see my old RA Tony, or even wander the halls for two hours if I want. But that would suck. I'm considering going in some MWF from 10-11am-ish because I saw distance learning classes from Mead on the schedule with Mr. Rutt and Jenny Kocian, hehe.
There was a reason why it took me 2 months to put up site news, because whenever I done, something new gets in my head.
First: New Online Status
I finally got around to removing the white pixel shadow around the images so I can have them where I intended, the sidebar. For some reason, the online status site wasn't working correctly and I was waiting for the code to appear so I can use my own images.
Second: Offsite Linking
This is something I'm happy about. Now I have my random quotes and and links/category links offsite, so I can edit them without having the redeploy the template, which takes forever. They're now on GeoCities which updates instantly so I can add to them and save time. The Links code looks like crap thanks to JavaScript, but I take what I can get.
Now: Category Revisions
Two new categories
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| Schizotypal: | Moderate |
| Antisocial: | Low |
| Borderline: | Low |
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| Narcissistic: | High |
| Avoidant: | Low |
| Dependent: | Low |
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It seems like I'm on a Trivial Pursuit kick, but ever since I found the Episode I version a few years back, I've been excited for an update. Anyways, Rebelscum posted more pics of the Toy Fair that had an opened box view of the game. The categories are different colors and in a different order so intersorting is definetly out. Another thing I noticed is that the board has no Hyperspace spaces which allow you in the first game, to go to any space on the board. Oh well, I'll get used to that. I'm so excited.
Rebelscum also had an open box view of the Saga Monopoly. Unfortunately, there was no view of the Risk opened. That's the one I'm curious to see how the map is done. To see all the pics, click the title link.
ComingSoon! has posted some great pictures of scenes and toys. They also put up some spoilers, not as good as the others but it was still interesting.
Coming Soon! - Latest News
Also, Star Wars.com posted pictures of the Hasbro toy lineup and including an interesting oddity. One of the pictures (shown below) showed the game collecton. The Risk and Monopoly look the same, but the Trivial Pursuit is in different packaging than previously thought here. The original one had a blue tone with the stylized Vader mask. This one has more of an orange tone with a standard Vader mask and a character montage. Not anything to worry about necessarily, but interesting to note. 
StarWars.com New Hasbro Games
Well, it's finally happened. Ever since TechTV merged with G4 I had a feeling they would get screwed. After the merge, G4 dropped several TechTV shows including Call For Help and that made me sad. Then they started revamping The Screen Savers every other month. Well, today I went to The Screen Savers' site to find out they completely dropped the "TechTV" from G4TechTV. If you've ever watched the station in its golden days, it was awesome and now there's little of it left. I'm sure by summer when I'll be able to see it, The Screen Savers will have mutated into something completely different that what it used to be. Oh well, I need a life beyond TV.
The other day TheForce.Net posted the new Revenge of the Sith line of toys. They went into detail about the Trivial Pursuit Star Wars DVD version coming in April.
"TRIVIAL PURSUIT® DVD Star Wars SAGA EDITION Game
(Approximate Retail: $49.99, Recommended Age: 10 & up)
The TRIVIAL PURSUIT® DVD Star Wars Saga Edition game combines traditional game play, modern DVD technology, and questions from all six Star Wars movies in six new categories - The Cantina; The Force; Heroes, Villains & Scoundrels; The Saga; A Galaxy Far, Far Away...; and Hyperspace. With over 2,400 questions, including 600 interactive questions on two DVDs, this game is sure to appeal to every Star Wars fan. Special to this game will be up to 20 DVD questions that will feature selected Star Wars' fans acting out various scenes from the Star Wars saga."
Read about all of them here.
So they changed the categories meaning I can't intersort the questions. Unless they make them similar to the original like:
Characters = Heroes, Villians, & Scoundrels
Weapons & Vehicles = The Force
History = The Saga
Geography = A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Droids, Creatures, & Aliens = The Cantina
Wild Card = Hyperspace
One can only dream... Oh well, the official site posted up pics of decor, Sith style here. There's some of these I want, but like most toys, they won't be out until April 2 giving me a month to use them on campus.
This post is a long time coming, but I think I'm all done.
First the big update: Categories
Because the week archives are piling up, I decided to create subject categories so you can find old posts or if you want to catch up. These are listed on the right after the links.
I love ComingSoon! There's another update with some awesome pics, some might be spoiler-ific, but they're really cool. There's also pics of new toys and some more text spoilers.
Coming Soon! - Latest News
This is a cool site. It shows almost every name you could think of and tells you when they were popular by decade as baby names in a fun interactive way. It has most names, but if you get a little too off the wall, it won't have it. I figured it wouldn't have my mom's name because her parents are the only ones who spell it Kellee. It requires Java, so everyone's probably got it, but if it doesn't work, go to www.java.com
The Baby Name Wizard's NameVoyager
Team America: World Police played in Gardner Auditorium tonight and I had to go see it. I love how you can tell certain voices are from South Park. It was a very fun thing to watch. I may have been the only one to notice on WSC that the tavern scene was a send up of the Star Wars cantina scene with similar camera shots and the same music, only backwards. I also like the retarded "Matt Damon" character.
There are three scenes that make the movie:
"You like shaving your armpits, Hayley? 'Cuz when the terrorists take over, that's the first thing to go." - Stan Smith
"We can't all look like those anorexic aliens in the James Cameron movies." - Roger
"Oh God, I have a bearclaw in my ass." - Roger
"Oh for Allah's sake, put some clothes on." - Arab sitcom star
"Check it out, the eraser is stuck up Bin Laden's pooper." - Stan Smith
"Wanna go back to my apartment and pet my schnouzer? Then later we can play with this dog." - Man on street
"Could you downplay our relationship in your public addresses?" - God to Bush
"Ooh, that's Cheney, I gotta take it. Hello, sir." - God
"Sorry, Steve, no dog. I'd be more than glad to get you an Etch-a-Sketch." - Stan Smith
"Oh God, he's going to pee, oh, oh, oh, no wait, just dust." - Stan Smith
"Don't ask me to bring him back with that E.T. finger thing because that's a load of crap." - Roger
"God, please take this soul up to heaven, becuase he can't walk. He's dead." - Stan Smith
"Aw, I thought I was gonna fart." - Stan Smith
"You know what Shakespeare said. I don't, but you do." - Jeff
"Hilary, look out for the mines!" - Stan Smith to Hilary Duff
"All I know is that he's Jewish but if you give me some churros I could stretch that out to about 12 pages." - Roger about Henry Kissinger
"I want to ride the buffalo!...Now send in the lunch lady." - Steve Smith
"Every sentence must end in a Steve." - Mr. Phillips
"Mr. Phillips can I be excused? I'm having my Steve." - Female student
"It's too risky right now, I'll call back later." - Perverted teacher to frog
"Steve, this comes from years of experience: Women are never right." - Stan Smith
"If you expect to get any boob, it's going to cost you a boadload of Twinkies." - Roger
ComingSoon! has posted some nice spoilers and photos from Episode III. I suggest that if you don't wan tot know much about the movie, don't click this link. If not, enjoy!
Coming Soon! - Latest News
Yesterday was awesome. I got my email saying my order has shipped so I'm looking forward to that. I then went to Norfolk because I had a huge urge to get SimCity 4 and looked for a Darth Vader action figure and, instead, found the Sneak Preview figure of General Grievous so I got that. I also picked up some chocolate and Valentines. Unfortunately, now I must not spend money on anything for a while (I say that now and wait a week...).
ComingSoon! reports that Microsoft has signed the writere of 28 Days Later and The Beach to adapt the game into one movie and the scrrenplay would be sold to studios for rights. The article also said how Halo 2 was the second-best selling game of the year and has sold so far half of the copies of Halo. Does anyone know what the best-selling game of 2004 was?
Coming Soon! - Latest News
Well, it's official! UPN finally cancelled Enterprise. It was so close to cancellation last year but they made it another year. I wish there is something I can do, but here we get UPN on Saturdays so we don't count toward ratings. SaveEnterprise.com is currently in Tactical Alert to try to help the show and EnterpriseFans.com is currently on bandwidth hiatus. I guess it would be good for Star Trek to take a break and work on getting back to its core. You never know, the DVD sales might help it pull a Family Guy. I know BnB were hot rocks to make a prequel movie probably dealing with the Earth-Romulan War. And then there's syndication...
I really think UPN needs to realize that it's such a crappy network. It is the network that launched Voyager so I'm not suggesting leaving necessarily, but they're always trying to compete with the other major networks who are broadcasted nationally when they need to take what they are given. It gets low ratings because it's up against major shows on major networks and they were all upset that Battlestar Galactica on Sci-Fi got better ratings.
Well, some good final episodes are coming up including the conclusion of the Romulan arc, the Klingon forehead arc, and the Mirror Universe arc, with the untitled series finale.
TrekToday - UPN Cancels 'Star Trek: Enterprise'
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